Unforgettable Presence: Get Seen, Gain Influence, and Catapult Your Career - Lorraine K. Lee
Are you an ambitious hard worker and high-achiever--but feeling stuck, unseen, and struggling to move up in your career? Lorraine K. Lee faced this exact challenge. It took countless conversations with industry leaders and a completely new mindset to show her that more work hours and greater output weren't the tickets to career advancement. To reach her professional goals, she realized it was necessary to become the CEO of her own career--and that to do that, she had to be strategic and intentional in how she established her professional presence in a rapidly changing world of work. In Unforgettable Presence, Lee--who speaks to Fortune 500 organizations, teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies and LinkedIn Learning, and whose career content and courses reaches millions of professionals--shares the practical and tactical advice she learned during more than a decade as a founding editor at top tech firms like LinkedIn and Prezi. This practical guide reframes what we need today to succeed in a competitive corporate landscape and defines professional presence for the modern workplace. No longer is presence restricted to executive appearance and how others see us in a physical room. In a post-COVID world where competition grows fiercer each day, presence stretches far beyond our physical spaces and relies just as much on how and where we show up in virtual spaces, like LinkedIn, video calls, and beyond. It's about the career brand we build for ourselves and the reputation that speaks for us even when we're not in the room. It's the critical two-part equation of how and where we're seen. In addition to sharing her own insights, Lee weaves in advice and lessons from her interviews with the world's top business leaders and professionals, including best-selling author Daniel Pink, Radical Candor's Kim Scott, former Late Late Show writer and comedian Fumi Abe, renowned communications expert Vinh Giang, content creator Corporate Natalie, and many more. Unforgettable Presence teaches the tangible and practical techniques to take the great work you're already doing and uplevel the essential hard and soft skills that will ensure you get noticed. Through personal anecdotes, research-backed principles, and insights from the top minds in business, you will learn to: Adopt mindset shifts that put you in the driver's seat of your professional journey Create an authentic and memorable brand that stands the test of time as your career evolves Communicate masterfully on video